Numerous reasons exist for using a classroom-community model with severely/profoundly handicapped youth, including skill generalization, reinforcer sampling, awareness by nonhandicapped people, appropriate role models in the community, elevated teacher expectations, parent expectations, demonstrations of competence by students, and facilitating…

A workshop was held to amplify the concept that career education should be an ongoing process in the life of students. It pointed up needs as well as ways to help students think about education as a process of living and preparing for life. (JOW)

Provides lists of indirect and direct approaches teachers can use to encourage an open and cooperative relationship between the school and the community. (Author/IRT)

The conventional school curriculum has largely ignored the local community. School-based fieldwork projects patterned after "Foxfire" can bridge the gap between classroom and community. (Author/MLF)

Outlines 13 ideas that principals have used to improve a school's public relations. The ideas include welcoming visitors, showing off what's right with education, trying something new at open house, and practicing preventive communication. (IRT)

These tongue-in-cheek suggestions for making a school parent-proof can be turned around and used to join parents and the community in an enlightening partnership. (Author/IRT)

Examined the relationship of a college's level of binge drinking and the number of alcohol outlets to lowered quality of neighborhood life through secondhand effects. Analysis indicated that the number of nearby alcohol outlets was an important factor mediating the relationship between colleges, especially those with high rates of binge drinking,…

Explores a new epistemology for the scholarship of community engagement, asserting that it requires both the rethinking of the nature and purposes of scholarship that Boyer initiated, and assumptions about truth and ground rules for determining it that are consistent with the emerging paradigms of the postmodern era. (EV)

Discusses superintendent's role in school-community relations. (Contains 13 references.)(PKP)

Describes how, partnering with Fannie Mae, three institutions--Howard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Jackson State University--have transformed their deteriorating neighborhoods into thriving communities. (EV)

Describes implementation of school-community partnership for student career success in Springfield, Massachusetts, stimulated by a state school-to-work grant supported with funds from the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. (PKP)

Presents public relations ideas to earn community support for reading and writing programs. Suggests speaking to parent-teacher associations, writing a column for local newspapers, newsletters at the district level, speaking to local service organizations, and arranging volunteer programs at school. (RS)

Suggestions are provided for promoting positive school and community relations, including establishing a public relations committee and program which informs the community of school achievements and activities. (CB)

The Early Childhood Education Committee in a California school district has forged partnerships with local preschool and day care centers, established preschool programs, and reached out to parents to help them work with their children. (MLF)

Presents the following materials for use in advocating and promoting "Theatre in Our Schools Month": a resolution, a page of logos for reproduction, a planning guide, award criteria, and a list of numerous ideas. (SR)